Chile and Argentina

1. Mapuche Conflict
Bitthal Nilotpal Sarangi
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2. • Who are Mapuche?
The indigenous group of people belonging to Patagonia in
Southern South America.
• What is the Mapuche Conflict?
It is the conflict between the Chilean-Argentinean States and the
Mapuche people is a collective name for the revival and
reorganization of Mapuche communities for greater
autonomy, recognition of rights and the recovery of land since
the 1990s after Chilean transition to democracy.

3. Mapuche Flag

4. Mapuche History
• 1641 to 1860 – Kingdom of Araucania and
Patagonia.
• 1860- Formation of a Constitutional and
Hereditary Monarchy in Wallmapu, Patagonia
under Lonkos Kilapan, Kalfucura and a French
citizen Antoine de Tounens.
• 1862 to 1885 – Chile and Argentina jointly waged
war against Mapuche Nation in order to civilise
and Christianise its people.(Mapuche activist
websites)
• 1990s- Revival of the Mapuche consciousness
after a century of subjugation.

5. Mapuche Cause
• Demands revolve mainly around three
themes:
1. Jurisdictional autonomy
2. Return of ancestral lands
3. Cultural identity

6. The Stakeholders in Conflict
• Mapuche People
• Chilean Government
• Argentina Government
• Forest-Dependent Industries and MNCs

7. The Events Timeline
• Ralco Hydroelectric Dam Project Controversy
in 1996 to 2004.
• 2009 killings of 2 Mapuche Activists in
Araucania.
• 2010 Hunger Strike
• 2013 Terror Strikes and Clash between
Mapuche Radicals and Chilean Government